Wawatay News published out of Thunder Bay is one of the biggest Aboriginal weekly newspapers in the country — and this week, they published my story on trapping beaver with Leonard and Larry Naveau for Mattagami First Nation’s annual Beaver Fest. Read the whole story here. Or take a look at my pictures from the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘travel’
February 19, 2010
Why Turkey’s Southeastern villages are (Ilisu) damned
Find out why harnessing water is so dam important to the Turks in my article for the New Internationalist. See more photos from my journey to Turkey’s largest dam, the Ataturk, and the villages along the Tigris River slated for flooding here.
February 3, 2010
Havana & Varadero in the rain: art, nightlife and the odd slice of bikini
The trouble with all-inclusive beach resort vacations (aside from the clinical removal of any ‘authentic’ culture in the country of visit) is bad weather. This happens rarely. But when it does, every tourist at the resort is in serious need of a Valium to stop their chins from sinking into the white marble floor (these [...]
April 23, 2009
Beaver trapping in Northern Ontario
Stripped of their tail, fur and legs, the six small beaver strung up side-by-side over the open fire look remarkably like the small pig carcasses commonly dissected in high school biology classes. “They’re done when the blood stops dripping,” says Leonard Naveau, who cooks the meat slowly over four hours, watching as it turns from [...]
April 6, 2008
Sap run
The moment when the cold, hard sap of the Maple Tree melts into syrup, like the heart melting at the first rush of new love’s embrace: this is spring. The historic Mennonite village of Elmira, near Kitchener-Waterloo in Southern Ontario, has marked this event with a festival on the first Saturday of April every year [...]
